A “professional” electrician in Roanoke Virginia did this, and I have questions

There is at least about 10 feet of this

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After their first visit they left a bunch of Romex just hanging not secured when we asked the general contractor said the would secure them when the job was finished. In between visits I installed my Ethernet And drilled new holes to exclusively run my Ethernet , when they came to “finish” their job they hijacked the Ethernet runs to 2 rooms and ran the romex thru my Ethernet runs for about 10 feet and said nothing about it, my wife didn’t notice and I had not looked cause I assumed they would drill their on holes. Am I crazy or is this jus lazy?? NEC AND TIA Violation? Long term safety? Any thoughts from code following people ?

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BedNo6845

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There's 2 sides to this.

People will call him lazy and unprofessional because he used holes someone else drilled.
People will call him lazy and unprofessional because he drilled MORE holes, and now the entire house must be dismantled, and rebuilt.

Every trade related subreddit here is 95% people with next to no experience. 4% with some experience, and 1% people with DECADES of experience, and that 1% spends most of their time arguing with the commentors that know nothing, but they watched a half hour renovation show last week, so they are now an expert.

The framing related subs, are full of people calling studs "joists", calling plates "sills", and calling rafters "boards". All while screaming about a single 2" hole drilled in an engineered joist, 24" from the wall. (Exactly where it should be). They then give sound financial advice, telling them to stop all payments on the house, and sue everybody, and everybody's building dept. The electrical subs argue about a twist in a wire, which way a device should be orientated, and the landlord plugging in a 3 prong cord in an old 2 prong outlet with that little adapter thing.

The plumbing subs are arguing about pex vs copper, sharkbites are the greatest things ever, and cpvc is just as good as anything else.

The deck subs are nothing but "it's under built, tear it down, do it again" because the triple 2x12 beam sitting on 6x6s every 4' could've fit one more 2x12. So the homeowner was ripped off on his 8'x10' deck sitting 11" above grade. It's always underbuilt. "The railing posts should be 6x6s with (5) 2x8 boards spaced 1" apart bolted with (2) 3/4x12 stainless lag bolts AND (4) 5" ledgerlok bolts AND 12D nails toenails in every corner with Simpson straps and tension rods." But it's only a simple landing by the sliding rear door... "oh, better use a 2x8 top cap then".

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It doesn't matter the subject, people will scare the crap out of the poor guy who chose to go on Reddit to ask advice about building a house, selling a car, restoring a motorcycle, or take up a new hobby. Kids that never swung a leg over a 2 stroke dirt bike, tell other kids who also never rode a 2 stroke, that the motor sounds like it has piston slap. PISTON SLAP? Yeah, when the piston is work out, it slaps back and forth. Worn out? Yes, worn. It'll have like 1/4 to 1/2" of slop. Half an inch? Yeah... see... point zero oh 5. That's half an inch. You mean, 0.005? Like 5 THOUSANDS OF AN INCH? Yeah. Whatever. That much let's the piston slap around. Dumbass... it's the shifter rattling because it's stripped out, and loose.

And they are all getting worse by the day. Don't ever go into a politics sub. Holy crap, you thought flat earthers were dumb? Go to r/Donald. (It's a joke. Don't do it)

DutchDouble87

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You win reddit for the day